Baltazàr – After Kanzai (2018)

Pueblo Nuevo

• Noise 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Post-industrial 
• Leftfield 
• Electronic music 
• Freeformfreakout 
• Improvised music 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Psycho-acoustic

Comment: in truth, this is obviously the first issue coming out from Cuba being appeared at RMH. Indeed, Fidel Castro is dead and Cuba, Island of Freedom is not the same anymore as it has been for decades beforehand. One of the new signs is this 10-notch whole due to its highly provoking and unnerving nature. Honestly, I didn't expect to find it from Cuba. By immersing in noise torrents and frantic electronic appearances (for instance, spasmodic electronic flickers and saturated improvisations and abstract signal-alike beeps). On the other side, the frenetic side is a bit balanced by string instruments though the nature of it is also harsh rather than gentle. At times the listener can hear silently flowing sampledelic undercurrents as if bearing a hidden message. This highly galvanized release is a part of the discography of a Chilean release, Pueblo Nuevo.

Tinyfolk – Incredible Snow (2011)

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

• Drone pop 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Electronic music 
• DIY 
• Electro-indie 
• Synth-pop

Comment: soon 10 years will be passed by from the moment when I did discover the incredible world of netlabels, platforms like Archive.org, Free Music Archive, Jamendo, CLLCT, The Daydream Generation and many outings within them. There was then the initial, true user-friendly version of Lastfm through which I did contact with Tinyfolk and discovered his releases. Indeed, all his issues were released through Bloomington, Indiana-based CLLCT which was a bottomless source for the contemporary DIY and lo-fi scene of the USA. It is redundant to speak out I truly miss those times. However, Incredible Snow is a 4-track issue and crafted after Ross Woods (now he is she under the name Sara June Woods) moved from Bloomington to the Windy City. Before that he had created a loads of issues of mixed quality but the recent one reflects on his maturity in coherent songwriting and because of it I would like to partly avoid the tag lo-fi although it is a stylistic lo-fi example. It is a great release with melodically catchy teasers although the release is more minimal than Ross/Sara's previous issues. I guess similarly to his previous issues it is created on Apple Garageband but without any guitars and ukuleles. It is fully electronic with synthesised drones and orchestrations. You can hear the female singing occasionally probably belonging to Meghan Lamb from Iron Like Nylon. This is her one of the latest issues before the project came to the end and she started a new project, Pretty Swans with Meghan, and Jim Laczkowski (Garden On A Trampoline).

Tripnectar – The World Is Yours (2017)

MNMN

Archive.org

• Electronic music 
• Chillstep 
• Alternative  
• Chilltronica 
• Sampledelic 
• Trap 
• Dubstep

Comment: Tripnectar is a producer from a small town from Siberia, Russia and The World Is Yours gets a third place chronologically in the list of four releases so far. The 9-notch outing consists of relaxing beats even if some more acute frequencies and angular patterns are incorporated into it, and truly atmospheric layers filled in with synthesised orchestrations, tectonic dubstep inflected bass thudding and slowly rotating phrases and reverberant effects toward the rhythmic backbone. At Left-Right the listener can hear more outlined trap cadences injecting more life to the whole. One of the favourite pieces of mine is South thanks to the murky, scurrilous monologue from a movie and a wonky rhythm to keep shuffling thereafter. All in all, Tripnectar is on the right track. The solid release is a part of the discography of MNMN Records, a Russian imprint.

[Teaser of the day] Mountain Cloth - The Wasps of Summer

• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/rock
• DIY
• Twee pop

Artist: Mountain Cloth

Release: Haircutter

Label: Giant Manilow

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Gamardah Fungus - Two Hemispheres, Two Worlds

Turbinicarpus

• Post-rock
• Post-metal
• Art rock
• Crossover
• Ambient rock
• Doom rock
• Improvised music

Artist: Gamardah Fungus

Release: Two Hemispheres, Two Worlds

Label: Turbinicarpus

Year: 2010

elconEstharoe – Imenginations (2018)

Murmure Intemporel

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

• Experimental electronica 
• Avant-electronica 
• Drone
• Experimentalism 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Ambient
• Electronic music
• Avant-garde

Comment: it is said that these 42 minutes come out from a pyramidic-machine, which converts electromagnetic signals and cosmic background into an audible spectrum. Subtlety and roughness are represented simultaneously through the compositions. At times it reminds me of a possible post-apocalyptic vision when all is destroyed but there is a new, powerful impulse to come out as soon as possible to embark on a new life. It contains a lot of metallic hisses and rusty noises as if a sign of the subsequences of a defunct civilization set in ruins due to the corrupted initial premises. Indeed, through all this technical debris as a sign of decay you can hear more mellow sounds like slight orchestrations, spatial ambient hovers as a sign of memories of a once existed full-fledged society. It is like a marred interface or circuit bending which does not function correctly. The bent title Imenginations provides an impulse about the tension and artificial wrongdoing between the abovementioned ones. By perceiving this in that way it is quite painful. The 10-notch issue is a part of the discography of Murmure Intemporel.

[Teaser of the day] Sotra - SpaceBorn

U-Torn

• Synth fusion
• Kosmische Musik
• Space music
• Krautrock
• Cosmic fusion
• Electronic music

Artist: Sotra

Release: Wayfarer

Label: U-Torn

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Skala Collective - Waiting For Something

Clinical Archives

• Dub rock
• Psychedelic
• Electronic
• Art rock
• Avant-rock
• Krautrock
• Experimental rock

Artist: Skala Collective

Release: Black Constellation

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2011

Lately Kind of Yeah – Galaxie Depression (2017)

Vulpiano

Bandcamp

• Ambient rock 
• Art rock 
• Alternative 
• Minimalism 
• Experimental rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Post-rock

Comment: first of all, this 7-track issue comes out from the US-based imprint Vulpiano Records and contains a couple of long-running compositions (for instance, Resonanz, and Erinnerung reach the mark of 20-minute, Adaptieren even more, clocking in at a 31-minute). Secondly, Vulpiano Records is a home record for some albums by the France-based Natural Snow Buildings, one of the most outstanding artists within the experimental folk/post-folk/New Weird movement. Galaxie Depression does have some common threads with Aldebaran, The Night Country, and The Alpha Centauri due to its minimally changing approach through long progressions while being imbued with spatial instrumental incantations. In true, Lately Kind Of Yeah`s music runs in the vein of (post-)rock music, that`s the main difference. Although it says something there are up many additional elements either. The artist likes to improvise on the guitar by cranking up the volume and crafting intriguing zig-zag-alike patterns and crackling effects as if playing it through a broken amplifier on the instrument. The instrumental incantations are interspersed with enchantingly iterative cycles, wide guitar bows and even ear-deafening outbursts. By listening to Resonanz it is an example of eargasmic music. All the titles are in German and referencing to the nature of a certain track. In a word, there are up fabulous 95 minutes.

[Teaser of the day] Nine Inch Nails - 21 Ghosts III

Archive.org

• Art music
• Electronic music
• Post-classical
• Minimalism
• Art rock
• Crossover
• Modern classical
• Avant-rock
• Experimentalism
• Post-rock
• Avant-garde

Artist: Nine Inch Nails

Release: Ghosts I-IV

Label: Self-released/Archive.org

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Thorn - Stoner Girl

• Stoner rock
• Noise pop
• No Wave
• Screamo
• Psych-rock
• Garage rock
• Alternative rock

Artist: Thorn

Release: Solace Of Noise

Label: Pen & Mallet

Year: 2018

Joxfield ProjeX – Archives EP 1 - Pling Plang (2013)

Archive.org

• Pychedelic 
• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Ambient rock 
• Synth-rock
• Electronic 
• Kosmische Musik 
• Art rock 
• Krautrock

Comment: Joxfield ProjeX as a project of a couple of lost musicians reappeared approximately 10 years ago under a Moscow-based cult imprint, Clinical Archives. Indeed, Janne Yan Andersson and Stefan Oax Ek started making music together approximately a half century ago until going to hiatus for decades. It sounds like once upon a time in Sweden… chiming like a fairy tale of the heroes of living much longer than the average human being. For sure, their music will do it. After releasing a bunch of albums under the Russian imprint they went on by issuing a couple of EPs on their own (Tin Can Music) and then they changed “commercial” by signing a deal with the French cult imprint Bam Balam and making collaboration with Cotton Casino, being known from a Japanese space rock juggernaut, Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. This set of 6 compositions comes out of their post-Clinical Archives period (also known as Archives (sic!)) although reflecting upon the same tendencies represented before. Their issues are always the same, always different. More detailedly, krautrock intensity on hirsute guitars and New Age-y and Kosmische Musik on spaced-out electronics with different threads within these 28 minutes set up a dynamic and colourful and vivid carnival-alike milieu. Emotionally it is a coherently ecstatic experience providing a stark remedy to get out of a hard day`s rubbish. However, there are up some more eclipsed compositions as well, Brana Funk Sun Ra, for instance. In a word, it is a top release analogically to the previous releases.

[Teaser of the day] 2muchachos - Warmtime

• Art pop
• Dream pop
• Electronic
• Alternative pop
• Ambient pop
• Indie pop
• Electro-indie
• Post-pop
• Indietronica

Artist: 2muchachos

Release: Prespring EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Zainetica - Warehouse Spirits Part1

• Minimal wave
• Electronic music
• Techno pop
• Synth-pop
• Alternative dance

Artist: Zainetica

Release: Unsaid

Label: Elpamusic

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] The Superfools - Latin Electronico

Free Music Archive

• Plunderphonics
• Latin music
• Avant-garde
• Rumba
• Sampledelic
• Experimentalism
• Sound collage

Artist: The Superfools

Release: The Superfools

Label: Chinstrap Music

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Roto Visage - Small Steps

Kikapu

• Ambient
• Experimentalism
• Drone
• Electronic music
• Illbient
• Ambient drone
• Post-industrial
• Avant-garde

Artist: Roto Visage

Release: Der Golem

Label: Kikapu

Year: 2005

Stockfinster* – Dead Line (2009)

Sutemos

• Indietronica 
• Alternative pop 
• Indie 
• Electronic music 
• IDM 
• Ambient 
• Synth-rock 
• Neokrautrock 
• Post-rock 
• Ambient pop

Comment: listening to this 13-notch outing it is a cordial arrival at a couple of phenomena being darling to me. Stockfinster, a one-man-project from Malmö, Sweden crafts music representing tendencies in the indie scene having been strongly prevalent in the end of the 90s and the beginning of the 00s mostly in the mid-Europe. Secondly, Dead Line comes out of the roster of releases from a Lithuanian netlabel, Sutemos, being the most respected one from within the Baltic States. The tendencies mentioned above came mostly from Germany, and the Benelux Countries and being inspired by krautrock-infused experimental (pop) music. Just some names to be mentioned – Masha Qrella, Mina, To Rococo Rot, Tarwater, Kreidler, Lali Puna, The Notwist, The Go Find, Styrofoam, Pluramon, Bernd Fleischmann, Mouse On Mars, Radian. The virtue of this movement was not to get encapsulated within one genre but the tendency was to push forward the stylistic borders, mostly toward IDM, and post-rock. All these elements are adeptly represented over there, even more, Batti (with some of his friends) adds more elements to the mix, for example, atmospheric piano chords, concrete music chips, jazz-inflected toots and vague improvisations, and roughly cut-up yet catchy electro cadences in some tracks. In general, most of the tracks used to sink into a laid-back, contemplative mood based on slightly gloomy yet majestic electronic progressions and subtly tinkling guitars. Fortunately all these layers keep moving and changing and interacting with one another in a way not to lose excitement. Partly due to it these 13 compositions constitute a cohesive, worthwhile whole. Dead Line was the artist's third and also the last release so far.

[Teaser of the day] Adamned.age - Der Dunkelmacher

Camomille

• IDM
• Experimental techno 
• Ambient techno
• Glitch techno
• Microtechno
• Electronic music

Artist: Adamned.age

Release: Fragile 

Label: Camomille

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Synopterus [aka Blevin Blectum] - Olivier Suite

• Dada music
• Electronic music
• Experimental electro
• Avant-pop
• Experimental pop

Artist: Synopterus [aka Blevin Blectum]

Release: All Day I Dream About Singularity

Label: Darling Dada

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Darren Harper - The Eternal Search for the Elusive Now, Part 1

Earth Mantra

• Dark ambient
• Drone
• Experimentalism
• Abstract
• Post-classical
• Microtonal
• Dystopbient
• Post-industrial
• Avant-garde

Artist: Darren Harper

Release: Time Forgotten

Label: Earth Mantra

Year: 2009

Nick R 61 – .tochka (2017)

Fusion

Archive.org

• Big beat 
• Avant-hop 
• Experimentalism 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Industrial hip-hop 
• Leftfield

Comment: Nick R 61 is a prolific artist from Russia who has been heading an imprint, Fusion Records for years as well (a huge part of the discography is covered by his own releases). As similar as the title of the records suggests his music is also a platform to mingle different impulses with one another. For better or worse, it might be .tochka (Dot in English) is the most challenging issue of him by widening his legacy with the tectonic squalls of bouncing rhythms, industrial-inspired sonic effects, swirling currents of microscopic noises and scruffy ambiances. Yet it may freely be my illusion because Nick R 61 has been criss-crossing from dub and raggamuffin to glitched-out electronica and techno and hip-hop to drill and bass and breakbeat cadences. Furthermore, it needs a tremendous effort and an immense amount of time to get a solid overview about his oeuvre. All of that embodied in a set of four tracks results in an exciting crossover experience. Without a doubt there cannot be denied an influence of The Death Grips and Dälek on it but on the other side the artist adds his previous spiritual undercurrents to the 12-minute blend. At times one can feel as if shifting between the jungle, and an urban area, between the blossoming freedom and an oppressive, artificial system which is called the civilization. Superb.

Roel Goovaerts – we zullen wel zien e (2015)

BWAA

• Newbreed 
• Electronic music 
• Leftfield 
• Experimentalism 
• Free folk 
• Avant-garde 
• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Minimalism 
• DIY 
• Witch house 
• Crossover 
• American Primitivism 
• New Weird Belgium 
• Avant-folk 
• Weird folk

Comment: yesterday late night I had been listening to Ak'chamel aka The Giver Of Illness´ issue The Man Who Drank God (2015) which was sent to me by generous Field Hymns imprint. It chimed like an extreme fringe of the New Weird movement as if coming out from a cave of the Neanderthals. It was sung in low and wobbly chords while emitting an almost festive milieu from those heathen arrangements. Thanks to being so wobbly and rough it was an utterly organic experience. In fact, by listening to the recent issue of six compositions I felt partly the same feeling. In spite of being compositionally a bit different by employing guitar chords subverting filters and effect blocks and stark, intoxicated electronics the ultimate experience says it is almost about the sort of epic music (especially at Francy, which is a 13-minute iterative climax). I would not dare to call it lo-fi music because similarly to the aforementioned issue by Ak'chamel it is against the premises of lo-fi as a genre and attitude either. You can intuit this on the defiant nature of the issue. For instance, the issue starts off like a lost form of witch/drag house/newbreed. Later on, it will be mutating into guitar primitivism, gravitates toward uncanny electronic locations and the aforementioned minimalistic, slightly spaghetti western-alike majesty of Francy. Indeed, it will be the music of a new breed, more profoundly, for neo(n) zombies. This truly overcoming outing is a part of the discography of BWAA. All is moving, changing and disappearing. Heaven knows we will be dust.

[Teaser of the day] Leon der Rote - Nordic Jam

Ephedrina

• Improvised music
• Neoclassical
• Experimental rock
• Ambient
• Dub rock
• Crossover
• Neofolk
• Avant-rock

Artist: Leon der Rote

Release: Von Aussen Sehen

Label: Ephedrina/Spettro

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Quine Ghost - Nasca Texture

Bunkai-Kei

• Psychedelic pop 
• Electronic pop
• Art pop
• Breaks
• Urban music
• Digital soul
• Post-pop

Artist: Quine Ghost

Release: Dragoon

Label: Bunkai-Kei

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] R. Lobster - Inlet

Sirona-Records

• Drum and bass
• Electronic music
• Alternative dance
• Dream and bass
• Crossover
• Progressive house
• Jungle
• Breakbeat

Artist: R. Lobster

Release: Particles

Label: Sirona-Records

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Glintsik - Red Bush

Dusted Wax Kingdom

• Sampledelic
• Trip-hop
• Lo-fi
• Mood music
• Hip-hop
• Psychedelic
• Nu jazz

Artist: Glintsik

Release: Butter Dream LP   

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

Toupe Mapeto – Unreleased Work Collection 1 (2018)

MiMi

Archive.org

• Breakcore 
• Electronic music 
• Rhythmic noise 
• Digital hardcore 
• Breakbeat 
• Power electronics 
• Avant-garde 
• Post-industrial 
• Industrial techno 
• IDM 
• Sampedelic

Comment: THAGKIA aka Toupe Mapeto cannot be considered a classical representative of the so-called Japanese noise movement because those harsh peaky sounds are just a mere element in the artist`s sound. It may be more clearly said Toupe Mapeto is just (a bit) influenced by it. Of course, it is intense and mind-provoking yet it is more based on more clear-cut yet powerful rhythms full of bass frequencies, cut-up rhythmic patterns and occult noises. Yeah, the description may be a main theme though it is surrounded by a thousands of dodges, electronic effects, collisions and “erroneous” sounds. Unreleased Work Collection 1 as one part of the digital hardcore and breakcore movement is certainly a propulsive power within the so-called acceleration philosophy, having the anti-capitalist intention. As you can hear from this set of 14 tracks many of them involve magnified poppy inclinations (mostly towards IDM shuffling) yet being surrounded by nihilistic sonic trash, slightly out-of-context samples, destructive impulses and broken orbit below them. All the “beautiful” is contradicted by some “ugly” simultaneously. For instance, 00253 is even highly psychedelic due to the main catchy repetition. At 00260 you it can be heard broken and then pushed together tectonic rhythmic debris being embellished by the atmospheric upper layer. These fabulous 61 minutes are released on MiMi Records. Let's wait for a sequel to it.

Co-Op – Neighbours (2015)

basic_sounds

Archive.org

• Soft rock 
• Yacht rock 
• Electronic 
• Jazz rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Crossover 
• Art pop 
• Mood music 
• Improvised music

Comment: this bunch of three tracks by Toronto, Ontario, Canada-based Oreste Camarra and his guest and neighbour Marcus Wong (who plays guitars) is a fine amalgamation of poppy electronic music, yacht and jazz rock shreds. The motives represented over there used to run in repetition thereof creating somehow compelling yet enchanting mood (Oak and Eli). Yet the other two tracks have been set out to run in a more variegated feel. I would like to praise the guitar play by Marcus Wong because it is the main propulsion in different penumbrae and shades and flickers in different strength and atmosphere. I would like to call it a contemporary version of soft rock because its intention apparently is not to overwhelm the listener with crushing riffs and volume but creating a subtle mood around his/her head (at the same time you have no chance to reject the technical adeptness of the release). By the way, the tracks are long (the shortest one clocks in at a 6-minute) so you nevertheless discern the impulse of an improvised format. The issue is a part of the discography of basic_sounds. Great stuff.

la corporación – rerum novarum (2017)

pan y rosas discos

Free Music Archive

• Improvised music 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Electronic music 
• Experimentalism 
• Live

Comment: this set of 5 compositions is the demonstration of female power by Amanda Irarrazabal, Cecilia López, and Cecilia Quinteros who play a synthesizer, a double bass, and a cello, respectively. In fact, this handful of tracks could be considered one lengthy track as well because the theme and formal appearances are the same. Formally throughout a 31-minute it chimes like the big shriek of a rusty door moving from one side to the other one. At times those short atonal splashes and shrieks will progress into drones. It does have a bit ivory tower effect upon me due to having drawn-out encapsulated and buried moves while providing a few progressions and a monochromatic timbre only. I could imagine if it was heard by the bourgeoisie most of them would consider it as weird, and irrational yet having been performed in a buttoned-up place they would think of it as put up for them and thereafter forget it by going home. It was recorded live on August 24, 2017 at Cuatro Tres, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The issue is a bit in the discography of pan y rosas discos.

[Teaser of the day] aboredghost - P O R Q U E N Ã O E X I S T E N Ó S

• Chillwave
• Alternative
• Electronic
• Hypnagogic pop
• Dreamwave
• Glo-fi
• Indietronica

Artist: aboredghost

Release: aboredghost 

Label: The Blog That Celebrates Itself 

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Riccardo Cirani - The Unread Vision

Laverna

• Ambient rock
• Experimental rock
• Electronic
• Improvised music
• Minimalism
• Art rock
• Progressive rock
• Avant-rock

Artist: Riccardo Cirani

Release: Intonazioni Serafiche

Label: Laverna

Year: 2018

Gilman Mom – Revisionist History (2018)

Macaque

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

• Ambient pop 
• Field recording 
• Yacht pop 
• Electronic music 
• Crossover 
• Organic electronica 
• Chillwave 
• Musique concrète 
• Glo-fi 
• Mood music

Comment: you can see milky clouds, you can hear blissful sounds coming out of these milky clouds. It does mean a revisionist history because it represents something being somewhere between chillwave music/glo-fi and yacht pop and ambient pop. In fact, the formula is even more complicated due to all of that is interspersed with concrete sounds and incremental spoken word spans. Moreover, the sort of ambient pop and yacht pop represented over there used to hark back to the 50s and 60s while some high-minded geeks started to produce space-related avant-music and totally relaxing tiki music. Is it paradoxical or not but the more you listen to this borderless music the more definitive it will be. By its atmosphere. The music which used to sound ahead of its time even today. In a word, Gilman Mom provides lofty sonic adventures of having no time and space. That`s the history existing always and everywhere as an invisible necessity or need. Top tier. The issue is a part of the discography of Macaque Records.

[Teaser of the day] Monkey Warhol - Times of Your Life

Free Music Archive

• Italo disco
• Electro-pop
• Post-disco
• Electro-house
• Autotune
• Crossover
• Electronic pop

Artist: Monkey Warhol

Release: Hannah Banana

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Postcode - None Of This Matters

• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/rock
• Acoustic pop

Artist: Postcode

Release: Acoustic Zebraland

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Carrière Solo - So Low

• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/rock
• Post-punk
• Nugaze

Artist: Carrière Solo 

Release: La Nota Sensibile EP

Label: Beko DSL

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Torn Vega - Ocean

• Indie pop/rock
• Art pop
• Alternative pop/rock
• Post-rock

Artist: Torn Vega

Release: Three

Label: djummi-records

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Leafes - Pink Moonlight

redstarcommunity

• New Weird Sweden
• Free folk
• Experimental folk
• Weird folk
• Avant-folk
• Freak folk

Artist: Leafes

Release: In The Mountain`s Belly

Label: redstarcommunity

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Phil Tea - Such Is Life (Space Age Dub)

• Dubtronica
• Dub
• Mood music
• Alternative
• Electronic music

Artist: Phil Tea

Release: Sentimental Value

Label: In Your Ears/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Larry Ford Leake - Four Leaf Clover

Dark Roots Syndicate

• Singer-songwriter
• Americana
• Roots music
• Folk

Artist: Larry Ford Leake

Release: Laughin' At The Tears

Label: Dark Roots Syndicate

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Akiba Jonze - Luna de Mayo

• Singer-songwriter
• Indie pop
• Dream pop
• Art pop
• Alternative pop

Artist: Akiba Jonze

Release: Luna de Mayo

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] CZAR - Planned Obsolescence

• Technical metal
• Progressive metal
• Screamo
• Acid metal

Artist: CZAR

Release: MINUS

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] The Cardboard Lung - Silver Lino

Earth Monkey Productions

• Minimalism
• Drone
• Avant-garde
• Ambient drone
• Experimentalism
• Microtonal
• Sound art
• Ambient

Artist: The Cardboard Lung

Release: Patient Lifted

Label: Earth Monkey Productions

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Caustic Reverie - Sonata Della Segreta

Jamendo

• Dark ambient
• Post-industrial
• Abstract
• Experimentalism
• Microtonal
• Electro-acoustic
• Avant-garde

Artist: Caustic Reverie

Release: Decadent Nemesis

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] aboombong - Triadic

• Krautrock
• Avant-garde
• Art music
• Improvised music
• World fusion
• Bhangra
• Post-industrial
• Crossover
• Minimalism
• Motorik
• Experimentalism

Artist: aboombong

Release: Admixture

Label: Pen & Mallet/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] KiloWatts - Zircon

Kahvi

• IDM
• Digital funk
• Crossover
• Alternative
• Microfunk
• Electronic music
• Crossover

Artist: KiloWatts

Release: Six Silicates

Label: Kahvi Collective/Bandcamp

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Yo La Tengo - Double Dare

Soundcloud

• Indie pop/rock
• Americana
• Alternative pop/rock
• Live

Artist: Yo La Tengo

Release: Yo La Tengo: October 10, 2015 Kings Theatre

Label: NYCTaper

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Light Leak - An den Grachten

• Deep house
• Electronic music
• Electro-house
• Club dance
• Outsider house

Artist: Light Leak

Release: Toskana EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Brother Saturn - The Darkest Day

• Ambient
• Avant-garde
• Improvised music
• Drone
• Minimalism
• Guitar ambient
• Experimentalism

Artist: Brother Saturn

Release: Songs For Dreaming

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Take Pills Die - Ripit

Archive.org

• Ambient pop
• IDM
• Electronic music
• Glo-fi

Artist: Take Pills Die

Release: Meatsuit

Label: Self-released/Archive.org

Year: 2008

Ana Bogner – Multiple Proportions (2015)

Headphonica

Bandcamp

• Singer-songwriter 
• Art pop 
• Drone pop 
• No Wave 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimental pop 
• Minimalism

Comment: Ana Bogner is an artist from Berlin, Germany whose 4-notch outing had been released on Headphonica. By listening to it I can imagine she is a previous punk who has made many further steps on to land in that uncanny, deeply inside twisted whole. She used to sing in a decelerated mode about her demons, blurred surrealistic dreams, internal battles regarding life and love being backed up by sparse throbbing drones, lone guitar chords and sporadic field recording snippets. Musically it is all but multiple in its general variation and proportion. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels upon such names as Lydia Lunch, Jarboe, H Stewart, Ludus.

The Organdicks – Music for Drooling Idiots with Trendy Beards (2003)

Silo

• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Experimental pop 
• Primitronica 
• Minimal synth 
• Dada music 
• Breakcore 
• Electro

Comment: if you hear the artist name Organdicks for the first time I guess you may think of it either as a stupid one or an act with intention to provoke. Provoking whatever, provoking whoever. Lots of frantic beats with acidic fringes and internal drones, loose thematic developments being strengthened by some iterative motives chiming like an old school game (Salivating Acid, Chin Melting sounds like playing a lighter version of Bomberman). Although this 14-notch release was issued 15 years ago on Silo the stylistic meaning of it may have been changed into a poppy one. Into an artsy poppy one adhered to conventional sonic patterns while undermining it at the same time. So it is a love-hate case, the course of living one's life. In a softer version, it is just a case of reflecting pop music tendencies through a refined tongue-in-cheek attitude. Give me some dada! Give me some gaga! And the year of 2003 had been a happy span to me. The life was more wild and spontaneous with fewer regulations. The world was not so polarised and un-natural, there was much hope in the air. I have had no problem to put it into my personal context.

Demons That Drove – Bakteria Type 6 (2007)

Noise-Joy

• Noise 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Post-industrial 
• Abstract 
• Non-music 
• Drone

Comment: this 7-track outing is something reflecting upon something being truly unique and primal and dangerous – the bacteria. Krister Bergman aka Demons That Drove has paid tributes for them. You can hear whistling drones and cicada-alike chiming and sporadic noisy outbursts like sonic filament of the bacterial nucleus code of Type 6. Of course, it is interesting to know what does mean every sound you can hear from it. Is it a certain characteristic of the bacteria or does it hint at a specific activity? These microscopic beings with puzzling taxonomy have been and probably still are the biggest threat to the race of human being. The antibiotics do lose effectiveness due to an over-consuming. However, the pattern of many bacterial and viral entities is visually stunning. Noise-Joy has been the domestic imprint for those depictions for years.

Shokushu – Reverberations Of The World (2012)

Sirona-Records

Bandcamp

• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Chilltronica 
• Mood music 
• Kosmische Musik 
• New Wave 
• Ambient 
• Krautrock 
• Musique concrète 
• Organic electronica

Comment: these 26 minutes to be embedded in eight tracks create different moods through bubbling electronic explorations and serene chill explorations. But not only – you can hear an even more technical approach to it – a track called Brainforest chimes like being created by someone from the so-called German Kling-Klang mindset. At the same time it is wrapped up by organic, true sounds yet as the result it is as if coming from an insular, paradisiacal area inhabited by beautiful and sensual people having no idea about self-destructive shit and stupidity of the rest of the world. And the course goes on and on except the sounds of the Kosmische Musik to be added to the mix, especially sultry and spaced-out imbued parallel universes reminding of Tangerine Dream. At times those halcyon ambiances are interfered with (un)expected incisive, acid throwing synthesisers. The enchanting release is a part of a prolific French imprint, Sirona-Records led by Arnaud Barbe aka Pollux.

Non Dolet – Dreamlover EP (2018)

Dusted Wax Kingdom

• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Darkwave 
• Neoclassical 
• Art pop 
• Trip-hop

Comment: Non Dolet is an artist from Russia who did contact with me for approximately 5 years ago. Now she has released a 4-track issue under the high-praised Bulgarian imprint Dusted Wax Kingdom. I shall have to mention her sound has been progressed over the years and it is a decent listening experience. By its mood, it is a bit darkened and murky though giving no whole hand to it. The listener can see saturated violet-tinged scenes behind the curtains where melancholy and sadness are formed into the state of art. Those majestic orchestrations (you can hear intriguing diffused melodica drones and faint whistles within it) and slowly evolving rhythmic patterns (a decelerated rock and roll beat which is called trip-hop is clearly drawn out) will result in stretched yet a bit obsessive compositions which look at you as if being a human being once having been existed. And hint at you you're lost, you're a ghost, you have no way to return. You will not bum out and get bummed out. The music as a state of art may be exceedingly delightful but undoubtedly this sort of music arouses one's sensations even more. A great listening.

Multi-Panel – Rekordgate II (2018)

Bandcamp

• Indietronica 
• Electronic 
• Alternative pop 
• Indie pop 
• Art pop 
• IDM 
• DIY 
• Ambient pop 
• Plinkerpop

Comment: indeed, it is time to give a comment on Ludo Maas' sequel to an album, Rekordgate I which had been released in March 2018. Similarly to it one can hear nylon-tinged acoustic guitars and bubbling electronic beats and wobbly synthesised sounds popping out for a while. In fact, Ludo Maas sings here as well though it is shardly decipherable because of being catatonic and pushed to the background. On the other side, it is not an example of shoegaze at least (or at least, it is the one and only common thread). However, in comparison to the previous notch it seems to be more restrained and phlegmatic as if coming through the mindset of a person of having suffered depression before it, he or she is yet fragile enough to trudge forward with more steady steps; for sure, it is the artist's choice as a step to go on and release brand new ones. Later on, listeners would give a retrospective estimation about each release within the series. Let's wait for the third one.

[Teaser of the day] Muhr - Brane Number 2

• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Crossover
• Improvised music
• Electro-acoustic
• Post-rock
• Psycho-acoustic

Artist: Muhr

Release: The Forever Tunnels

Label: Miasmah

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Blood Bells - Destroy

• Post-punk
• Alternative rock
• Gothic rock
• Coldwave

Artist: Blood Bells

Release: The DarkSide of TBTCI, II

Label: The Blog That Celebrates Itself Records

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Grateful Shred - Feel Like A Stranger

• Soul rock
• Funk rock
• Live
• Yacht rock
• Crossover
• Alternative rock

Artist: Grateful Shred

Release: Grateful Shred: July 14, 2018 Brooklyn Bowl

Label: NYCTaper

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Taras Bul`ba - Miyuki

Jamendo

• Math rock
• Experimental rock
• Indie rock
• Psychedelic
• Alternative rock
• Crossover
• Stoner rock

Artist: Taras Bul`ba

Release: Incisione

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] The Antlers - Shiva

NYCTaper

• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/ rock
• Art rock
• Live
• Space pop
• Psychedelic rock

Artist: The Antlers

Release: The Antlers Live at Cake Shop on 2009-01-22

Label: NYCTaper/Live Music Archive

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Holzkopf - The Swingers (Part 2)

• Post-industrial
• Power electronics
• Electronic music
• Rhythmic industrial
• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde

Artist: Holzkopf

Release: The Sufferer of Conduits in the New Tarot

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp  

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Daniel Maze - The Chiefs Are Folding

Serein

• Deep house
• Alternative
• Ambient house
• Electronic music

Artist: Daniel Maze

Release: Red After Image

Label: Serein

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] K.D. Expression - MC Encounter

Nishi

• Chilltronica
• Ambient pop
• Mood music
• Electronic music

Artist: K.D. Expression

Release: Mental EP

Label: Nishi

Year: 2005

Maxim Trianov – A Chance To Remember (2014)

Nexsound

• Improvised music 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-rock 
• Electronic music
• Guitar ambient 
• Post-rock 
• Experimental electronica 
• Crossover 
• Electro-acoustic

Comment: Maxim Trianov is a musician from Kharkov, Ukraine whose 7-track issue (clocking in at a 48-minute) is predominantly an immersive thought through electric and acoustic guitars and electronics induced effects. Undoubtedly the main heaviness is set up by the guitars in different forms – at times it is set out as organic, subsequent progressions through the chords, at times it involves more incisive interruptions based on effects unit and effect control devices. As if getting obsessively into the essence of a sonic minutia to be explored. At times there are set up a dialogue between the guitars and a lurking atmosphere as if lashing the ghosts around and inside him. Electronic music is foremost set forth at The Morning After which is a platform to meld together glitched-out electronica and slamming electronic beats with broad progressive rock sweeps. The finishing track Outro is the electro-acoustic example. What I should say – imagine Slash were partly abandoned his rock star ambitions to play guitars in a more experimental mode. Of course I do not complain at all – Slash is a great guitar hero, and this case is an album of Maxim Trianov, who is also a great artist. This mind-provoking issue is a part of the discography of Nexsound, a Ukraine-based experimental imprint.

[Teaser of the day] Marisol Celestia - All Throughout The Night

Sirona-Records

• Alternative rock
• Singer-songwriter
• Slowcore
• Indie rock

Artist: Marisol Celestia

Release: A Never Ending Promise

Label: Sirona-Records

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Pollux - Souvenirs (Ceox Legal Edit)

45RPM-Records

• Electronic music
• Downtempo
• Crossover
• Glitchstep
• Ambient dub
• Glitch-hop

Artist: Pollux

Release: Souvenirs

Label: 45RPM-Records

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] So I`m An Islander - Træj Faue (Three Colours)

• Indie pop
• Drone pop
• Baroque pop
• Post-rock
• Epic
• Chamber pop
• Art pop
• Ork-pop

Artist: So I`m An Islander

Release: Fle'e Mælo'die

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] The Peach Tree - Hammerhead

• Synthwave
• Alternative
• Electronic music
• EBM
• Industrial electro

Artist: The Peach Tree

Release: The Vases EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp  

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Takeshi Nakamura - Base

Nocharizma

• Glitchtronica
• Avant-electronica
• Abstract
• Electronic music
• Experimental electronica
• Clicks and cuts

Artist: Takeshi Nakamura

Release: Eros, Grotesque, Nonsense

Label: Nocharizma

Year. 2005

VA – Gauchito Gil contra Colocolo (2010)

Los Emes Del Oso

Free Music Archive

• Electro-acoustic 
• Space pop 
• Musique concrète 
• Field recording 
• No Wave 
• Drone pop 
• Avant-garde 
• Leftfield 
• Experimentalism 
• Improvised music 
• Lo-fi 
• Avant-pop 
• Psychedelic 
• DIY 
• Progressive pop 
• Tropicàlia pop 
• World fusion

Comment: Gaucho Surrealista, Un Festin Sagital, Radikal Satan, Manuel De La Pileta, Onda Bidón, Tomates Rocky, Los Siquicos Litoralenos, Manuel J. Grotesque, Musicos Del Metro, Kellies, Dadalú, Caballo Loco, Collectivo No, Ø+yn, Pibes De Merlo, Los Pastores De Gelatina, Radio Chilena, and Oso* Y Los Mongos Freneticos are the names represented on this compilation of a fairly broad extent. Thanks to an imprint, Los Emes Del Oso to whom some glimpses from Chile, and Argentina are represented over there. Lots of improvised and immediate sounds (as if straightly from the street and a carnival) make me feel alright, although the processed sounds presented over there are also fine and freely floating – from Os Mutantes-stylized avant/prog mixed Tropicàlia pop (indeed, music does not recognize the geographical borders) and old school radio chirping to murky drone and darkwave flickers to deranged psychedelic addressing and spacey theremin/analogue synth-based developments and warped ethnic/world music extravaganzas. Undoubtedly you can find out much different attitude and parochial approach (in a good sense, of course) you are not allowed to discover in Europe, and the USA. Top notch which makes me psyched out.

Masato Abe – Author (2017)

Elementperspective

Free Music Archive

• Post-rock 
• Modern classical 
• Art music 
• Ambient 
• Epic 
• Post-classical 
• Crossover 
• Piano music 
• Contemporary classical

Comment: In fact, in the previous year I decided not to send my review about the best albums to a public magazine because it should be the closed case. Yet it is ridiculous to expect to have a good review about the albums having been published during an annual span. If there is any possibility to represent it dynamically (via Internet) then do it. Let's consider this excellent Tokyo, Japan-based Masato Abe`s Author (also known from the duo Swan Kid Sue). I have been listening to it for hours today and there is no doubt it should be added to the list of the best albums 2017. It is the case. More profoundly, it is as easy as feather, it is as heavy as honey, it is as dreamy as your most dreamy reveries. This 8-track adept colossus does not distinguish the borders between contemporary classical, and majestic, chamber-tinged rock swathes. At times the course is amended by vocal glimpses, concrete sounds, and sublime piano tenures. All is floating slowly over your fragile soul and affected mind. There is no hurry and a listener should not rush. If you are listening to it this whole makes impact on you anyway. All is blossoming and inevitably wrapping around you. Like me too. Just hear at Small Window Shows So Many Delight those effortlessly rolling violins and charming orchestrations to make up your blissful Sunday. The release is a bit in the discography of elementperspective. So it can be said the case is Japanese wholly.

nula.cc – Trilogy (2018)

Bandcamp

• Drone 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Avant-electronica 
• Abstract 
• Sound art 
• Experimental electronica 
• Microtonal 
• Microsound 
• Non-music 
• Post-industrial

Comment: nula.cc, a Prague, The Czech Republic-based artist is back with three tracks based on friction, and involving such materials as wood, metal, skin, water, and air. For many years ago such a sort of concept would have been interesting but I would soon realize that either the sound used to self-organize itself or there are certain limits for the sound to push the sound into a before existed form or forms. Or maybe human ears are way too weak to get into true new sounds. Or maybe your imagination begins to work in a way to produce sounds of having no existence in reality. It already enters into the philosophical question of phenomenon. However, it is yet interesting to listen to it even though it consists of off-white hisses, vaguely pulsating microscopic chips, exquisite electro-acoustic effects. I guess the artist has exploited contact microphones to provide the essence of the aforementioned materials and mediums. All in all, it is an intriguing whole which feeds your imagination and broadens some listening experience.

Luca Calcagno – La Pioggia Rinfresca L’Estate (2017)

In Your Ears

• Indie pop/rock 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Pomp pop 
• Pop rock

Comment: it is nice to be back at the discography of an Italian imprint, In Your Ears Netlabel (for instance, I can remember such a great release as Drunkeninstrumentcorporation`s Always The Same 10 Fucking Songs (2016). Luca Calcagno is a self-taught musician who is working in a music store. There are represented a couple of tracks, the first of them, the self-titled track is a straightforward, deeply ploughing guitar-based composition without any adornments and magniloquent overstatements. OK, the whole adornment is embraced by the key changes on the guitar. It is an example of AOR and regarding the emotions it is more suppressed in comparison to the subsequent track. It is a decelerated chamber/soul/pop rock example with bombastic sweeps on the guitar and full-fledged fringes on synths. It is a rock balladry without growing into disgraceful sensations and embarrassing feels. All the lyrics are sung in Italian.